Goldpick
Chris Johnson
I have been rather anxious about not having a detect for while now ( car at crash repairers), so the opportunity arose for a detect with our local detecting club at a country oval. The oval is no longer in use, though still has lots of modern junk all over the place to deal with. A couple of the guys managed a shilling, though the older stuff was pretty thin on the ground, mostly modern coinage was found. From memory we had 2 ctx3030's, an AT Pro, Fisher F75, Minelab Sovereign, Minelab Quattro, and a Minelab 705 on today's trip, quite a variation. 
Most of my coins were found around a couple of large trees, with other areas producing nothing more than a bag full of junk - mainly pull tabs and bottle caps, drum bungs, you name it.
My best find of the day was a junior colts football medal, though not overly old, still something different. The Deus hits nicely on goldies, good solid but mellow tones vs the bottle caps which are quite sharp and abrupt signals. I mainly went off tones as some of the deeper targets do not register an ID, whilst still offering a good tone, though shallow to mid depth TID's seem fine. The Deus definitely has better target separation than the Etrac, even with the 11" coil fitted, though that was expected, hence why it was purchased. If relying on TID's for deeper targets, I think I would prefer the Etrac at this stage, and with the ferrous/conductivity readings providing more detailed target info than the Deus two digit TID reading.
Ground balancing is very easy, you have the choice of manual, tracking or pumping (similar to ground grab), of which I used the latter before starting off.
The Deus is extremely light to swing, and virtually fatigue free, and the batteries still indicated full charge at the end of the session, so no issues there. I ran with the backphones for a while which are also extremely light and give good clear audio, barely noticed I was even wearing them. Afterwards I ran with just the control box audio, no issues there either, with very clear and loud audio with the stock volume setting, though not as hellishly loud as the Fisher F75 working near me.
I ran in both 12 & 18 kHz swapping between the Basic 1 program and Deus Fast program, with a noticeable difference in sensitivity on the many smaller non ferrous targets on 18. 12kHz tends to chop out a lot of the unwanted small non-ferrous targets, and was a bit more susceptible to EMI from nearby power lines, though was probably my preferred coin program over the two. Using 5 tones gave a good spread across the conductivity range to separate out one target from the next, and only a small amount of iron discrimination was utilised as per the stock program settings.
Other than using 5 tones, I haven't touched the expert settings as yet, at least not till I get some more detecting time under my belt. Just as with the Etrac, you can easily detect on the stock programs for coins without having to delve into complicated settings to do so, will be leaving those for another day.
Am liking what I have experienced so far, though really do miss not having those two sets of TID numbers as on the Etrac, nevertheless, on the upside the recovery speed is pretty awesome. Both are fine detectors, as always there are pros and cons, depending on where you are using them and what you are targeting. My line of thinking is that they compliment each other - Deus primarily for junk/iron, and Etrac for deep targets on relatively clean open ground.
First coin on the Deus - a BB as usual.
One of the two CTX3030's used on the day.
Nothing exciting, though early days on the Deus.
Footy medal
Starship Enterprise :lol:
Most of my coins were found around a couple of large trees, with other areas producing nothing more than a bag full of junk - mainly pull tabs and bottle caps, drum bungs, you name it.
My best find of the day was a junior colts football medal, though not overly old, still something different. The Deus hits nicely on goldies, good solid but mellow tones vs the bottle caps which are quite sharp and abrupt signals. I mainly went off tones as some of the deeper targets do not register an ID, whilst still offering a good tone, though shallow to mid depth TID's seem fine. The Deus definitely has better target separation than the Etrac, even with the 11" coil fitted, though that was expected, hence why it was purchased. If relying on TID's for deeper targets, I think I would prefer the Etrac at this stage, and with the ferrous/conductivity readings providing more detailed target info than the Deus two digit TID reading.
Ground balancing is very easy, you have the choice of manual, tracking or pumping (similar to ground grab), of which I used the latter before starting off.
The Deus is extremely light to swing, and virtually fatigue free, and the batteries still indicated full charge at the end of the session, so no issues there. I ran with the backphones for a while which are also extremely light and give good clear audio, barely noticed I was even wearing them. Afterwards I ran with just the control box audio, no issues there either, with very clear and loud audio with the stock volume setting, though not as hellishly loud as the Fisher F75 working near me.
I ran in both 12 & 18 kHz swapping between the Basic 1 program and Deus Fast program, with a noticeable difference in sensitivity on the many smaller non ferrous targets on 18. 12kHz tends to chop out a lot of the unwanted small non-ferrous targets, and was a bit more susceptible to EMI from nearby power lines, though was probably my preferred coin program over the two. Using 5 tones gave a good spread across the conductivity range to separate out one target from the next, and only a small amount of iron discrimination was utilised as per the stock program settings.
Other than using 5 tones, I haven't touched the expert settings as yet, at least not till I get some more detecting time under my belt. Just as with the Etrac, you can easily detect on the stock programs for coins without having to delve into complicated settings to do so, will be leaving those for another day.
Am liking what I have experienced so far, though really do miss not having those two sets of TID numbers as on the Etrac, nevertheless, on the upside the recovery speed is pretty awesome. Both are fine detectors, as always there are pros and cons, depending on where you are using them and what you are targeting. My line of thinking is that they compliment each other - Deus primarily for junk/iron, and Etrac for deep targets on relatively clean open ground.
First coin on the Deus - a BB as usual.
One of the two CTX3030's used on the day.
Nothing exciting, though early days on the Deus.
Footy medal
Starship Enterprise :lol:
